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St. Francis' Convent School Holiday Homework - Class IX What's A.L.U.? What does the acronym stand for?

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stands for Arithmetic and Logic Unit.  It is the core part of the CPU - central PROCESSING unit.  ALU is the set of chips, electronics hardware, that performs logic and arithmetic operations on numbers in the binary system with radix 2.  It understands only  0 and 1.ALU performs additions , multiplications, AND, OR operations or inputting a data from memory or a device or outputting RESULT to memory or device.  All software that runs on computers, is a set of instructions to the PROCESSOR.  ALU executes all the instructions.Each TYPE of ALU has a specific machine language.



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